Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is a market that someone should have gotten into a long time ago. As one of the guys behind the Yankees Suck empire said yesterday, "There's a lot of Yankee-haters out there." And never more than this weekend, as the Sox and Yanks met at Fenway Park in the postseason for the first time ever. (I'm not even going to attempt to describe the intensity of the rivalry here. If you're curious, wear a Red Sox hat into Yankee Stadium sometime and find out for yourself...
...endured a bit of gentle teasing from friends and co-workers two weeks ago when I told them I was taking a weekend course in wilderness first aid. "Getting ready for Y2K?" they wanted to know. "What's next, survivalist camp?" Well, no. But I do like to escape Manhattan's concrete canyons every now and again to go tramping through nearby state parks. It's not exactly isolated backcountry, but then neither is medical help just a phone call away...
Back when women were considered the weaker sex, it wasn't easy for them to learn and practice the outdoor skills men like Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett used to survive in the wilderness. Now it is. In weekend workshops organized by Becoming an Outdoors-Woman, a woman can acquire sufficient know-how to become a mountain woman--or, if she prefers, a desert, valley or ocean woman. Because BOW's courses are offered in 44 states and nine Canadian provinces, she can hunt elk in Montana on one weekend and wild turkeys in Wisconsin, or deer in Texas...
...volunteered for two weeks last spring to clear the overgrown site of an ancient amphitheater in Mycenae. Occasionally turning up pieces of marble in the theater's dusty floor, Traudi held them in her hand and imagined what the place and people had been like thousands of years ago. Weekend trips to Delphi and Olympia, arranged by the Greek cultural organization sponsoring the work camp, were an unexpected bonus...
...Just for example, over the weekend Motorola and French software mogul Philippe Kahn announced their intention to put $6.5 million into OpenGrid, Inc., a little-known startup bent on creating instant-messaging applications for cell phones. If OpenGrid can make it happen, the move would take cell phones into an area of communications that until now only PCs have been able to handle; although some pagers can handle e-mail, they aren't capable of true instant messaging. MORE...